Re: Looping Great passes away

[David Trenkel <improv@peak.org>]

On Saturday, August 7, 2004, at 05:01 PM, loop.pool wrote:

> looping great and superfreak Rick James passed away of natural causes
> yesterday.
>
> his EDP work was exemplary.
>
> he will be missed.
>
>
We were on the road this weekend, and had a gig Saturday night in 
Sandpoint, Idaho. In the middle of our free-jazz cover of Radiohead's 
"National Anthem," we merged into "Superfreak" spontaneously. It was a 
beautiful moment. It triggered more breakdancing than I suspect has 
been seen in Idaho for many years. With Rick gone, there's now a little 
piece of superfreak in all of us.

To paraphrase Dave Chappelle, "We're all Rick James, bitch."